corpus
noun/ˈkɔrpəs/
Frequency rank: #6,492 most common English word
Meaning
A large collection of written or spoken texts used for linguistic analysis.
Example sentence
The linguist analyzed thousands of texts in the corpus to find common speech patterns.
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